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owlmoose

An open note to the Worldcon Hugo Committee(s)

Apr 04, 2015 14:09

On the occasion of the Sad/Rabid Puppy near-sweep of the 2015 Hugo Nominations (for anyone not familiar, here's an excellent overviewWord on the street is that you're pretty pissed that a group of folks were able to game the award nominations this way. Good. You should be. The rules for how the Hugo Awards work have long been in need of an overhaul ( Read more... )

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owlmoose April 7 2015, 01:57:56 UTC

Yeah, that would definitely be an issue, especially in the novel category. In my case, I think the tradeoff of greater variety would be worth it, but I can understand why not everyone would agree.

owlmoose April 7 2015, 16:03:14 UTC

BTW, I'm curious -- do you not have to read much because you've already read most of the nominees, or are you no-voting the SP/RP slate? My plan is to no vote the fiction from the slate (and I've already read the non-slate novels -- they were actually both on my nomination ballot), but need to think about the other categories, since it seems that many of those folks were just caught up in the mess unawares.